Coming Christmas 2021
The Vignettes
Written in Australia in 1970, the Vignettes were buried in a box for 50 years. But they were not forgotten. The stories of four friends and their lovers and kids, scattered from New York to Germany to the Pacific Islands, creates a tableaux of thermonuclear war—the living, the dying, the attempts to outrun fate—that is both a riveting psychological report of its time and a cautionary tale for ours. The sweet psychedelic haze and hip language of the hyper-educated, globally savvy friends is never meant to camouflage the deep tragedy of a world dying of greed and the mad violence that comes with it. Utterly brilliant.
Norton Jacobi was educated at Princeton University, served in U.S. Army Intelligence in post-World War II Germany, and was a professor of economics at The University of South Carolina at Columbia and The University of Newcastle in Newcastle, NSW, Australia.